Venture Mentors

Startup activist & evangelist. Passionate about all things startup. Founded 4+ businesses with a diverse background ranging from being a wedding photographer, technology consultant, to being a CEO of a publicly traded company.

Amu Fowler

Ganesh is an entrepreneur, business coach, versatile leader and an angel investor in the technology industry. Ganesh has over 20 years of experience in technology industry and was responsible for driving over $1 billion revenue growth and triple-digit margin gains.

Jeremy Snyder

Advising in areas of:AcceleratorsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Models

Hector Del Castillo has over 15 years of experience helping executives, senior managers, and entrepreneurs to transform ideas into a great business. He’s passionate about building and marketing products customers love.

Hector Del Castillo

Passionate about quality and product value and brings his best to the table for each project and can manage small to large teams, and architected systems in the excess of 100M, which resulted in enterprises in cost savings in the amounts of 10M +.

Keith Fowler

Venture Adviser in Technology

Advising in areas of:AgileEnterprise SoftwareInformation Technology

In his near 20 years in IT, he has been involved with everything from legacy mainframe systems to cloud based applications. He has worked with organizations of all sizes, from small startups to established, multi-national enterprises.

Robert Katz

Advising in areas of:Business DevelopmentGov ConPitch Preparation

Tiger Team Consulting has provided a platform into which Kevin can incorporate his affinity for staff development, entrepreneurial growth, and new technology. In addition to TTC management, Kevin continues to offer a combination of hands-on development and technical leadership to our clients. Kevin has a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Shiva Thirumazhusai

Advising in areas of:AgileBusiness AdministrationBusiness Development

Craig Kendall has overcome challenges and created opportunities all his life. As President and owner of Financial Investments, Inc. (FII), Craig has created wealth and established financial security for hundreds of clients, from individuals who entrusted their life savings to him to large institutional investors who see the value of his unique investment approaches.

Craig Kendall

Umar Hameed specializes in changing human behavior quickly, consistently, and permanently. At the heart of our work is the concept that the beliefs an individual, team, or an organization holds and drive the results they achieve.

Umar Hameed

CEO | No Limits Selling

Advising in areas of:MarketingSales

Emerging Mentors

Will is a Product Researcher for AddThis. He’s conducted user research for a wide array of companies: spanning Fortune 500 to start-ups to government agencies. Will helps guide product and design leads to create thoughtful experiences through iterative user testing

William King

Arthur Pro is a Senior Full Stack Web / Mobile App Developer, DevOps, Graphics Designer and a strong Team Leader specializing in IT. Experienced with all stages of the development cycle for dynamic web projects, APIs and Mobile Apps.

Mike C Johnson

Kiran is a proven business leader and an emerging technology entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Nivid Technologies, a fast growing technology services firm in DC Metro area and Co-Founder, Director of a non-profit ‘TechCeFacos’ providing free technical education and training to young adults in Cameroon, Africa.

Kiran Yeddala

Since graduating college Jeremiah has worked in a variety of fields from photography to Geospatial Information Systems, to organizational management and communication consulting. Throughout these experiences, he has developed a strong skill set in customer engagement, communication strategies, and data analytics. Jeremiah is passionate about data driven solutions to real customer problems, and communicating with people to understand what their

Jeremiah Tamagna-Darr

Customer Interview SME

Advising in areas of:ComunicationCustomer InterviewsLeadership

Nema has spent his career driving sales and profitability for Fortune 500 companies, as well as, developing sales processes, sales training programs, building sales teams, and leading business development for innovative startups. He is the founder and president of Precision Sales Consulting, a Sandler Training Company based in Northern Virginia, focused on sales training, management […]